"Randolph hadn’t expected the map to misrepresent the route to the
motorway quite so much. The roads were considerably straighter on the
page. The high beams roused swarms of shadows in the hedges and glinted
on elongated warnings of bends ahead, and then the light found a
signpost. It pointed down a lane to somewhere called Lorn Hall."

At Yesteryear Fiction: "A Tale of Bugs" by Joel Zartman. Fantasy. "After he left, Christine cut a piece from the plant and put it on the
desk. She had noticed several black spots on it and when she put the
plant on the desk, the spots began to scurry away."

At StarShipSofa: "Shadowboxer" by Paul Di Filippo. Speculative Fiction. "It's a political story about an assassin who can kill by looking at
someone, who is kidnapped by the US and pressed into service as part of
the War on Terror." -BoingBoing